The Godfrey Audio Guide · Nicole Knudsen

Feed Drop: Fawx & Stallion

February 3, 2025·26 min·2 clips

Nicole recommends Fox and Stallion, a Victorian mystery comedy about Baker Street's other detective team.

Nicole, host of The Godfrey Audio Guide, introduces Fawx and Stallion as a Victorian mystery comedy podcast praised at Tink Media's Audio Delicacies 2022 as a joyfully queer historical farce with strong character work and period-accurate sound design. The pilot episode, written and directed by Ian Giers and Lauren Grace Thompson, opens in London 1889 with Hampton Fawkes misidentifying a roleplay scenario as a genuine robbery and getting arrested after his intervention backfires. At Scotland Yard, he reunites with his partner James Stallion and their friend Inspector Archie Cartwright, newly promoted. Fawkes and Stallion debate the merits of competing newspapers—The Times versus The Standard—while Cartwright goes through the motions of scolding them for form's sake. Back at their shared offices, identified as 224B Baker Street, the detectives drink gin and spar while Madge Stallion, James's wife and co-investigator, arrives furious at being stood up by her ex Martha Hudson. Fawkes proposes breaking into 221B Baker Street to check if Martha left a note. The trio does so, briefly rifling through Sherlock Holmes's journals before finding the note. It reveals that Holmes and Watson are away on a case in Dartmoor—the hound of the Baskervilles is implied—leaving London open for Fawkes and Stallion to solve a case uncontested. A woman knocks on the door shortly after, asking for Sherlock Holmes. The team accepts what they expect to be a straightforward jewel heist case, only for the client to reveal that her mother will be hanged if the jewels are not recovered.

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A brisk Victorian caper with sharp banter, a solid mystery, and a found family that is easy to love.

Fox and Stallion is a Victorian mystery comedy set in 1889 London, and it brings a razor-sharp farce, a solid mystery, and sound design that fits the genre without fuss.

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A Baker Street caper with a razor-sharp farce, a solid mystery, and genre-perfect sound design.

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